In the course of building a page for our new website a quick hunt around the internet for some information led to the accidental discovery of an excellent new book which is a must have for the library here. The book, "Tomorrow's Garden. Design and Inspiration for a New Age of Sustainable Gardening". is by New York based writer, Stephen Orr, Garden Editor for Martha Stewart Living
In a recent interview Stephen summed up the philosophy underlying his new book. "I had worked at some very high-end glossy magazines, and documented a lot of very large estate gardens. I started to feel kind of psychologically burdened by how big and vast and grand these things were. Our economy had been puffed up and our garden-making had gotten puffed up, too. I wanted to addresses smaller gardens that have a sense of purpose. Gardens that were not just about money and getting the rarest plants ... I just started to feel like we were all moving toward a new direction with gardening that isn’t so wasteful and inconsiderate of our resources (water, time, effort, fertilizer).Or, at least, we should be."
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